Ground-probing radar and resistivity surveys used in archaeological investigations

Forensic archaeology in Britain

“…Bevan & Kenyon 1979). Although not originally devised for archaeological prospection GPR has been applied to subterranean chambers at the ancient city of Sepphoris, Israel (Batey 1987), burial vaults in Japan (Imai et al 1987), complex urban sites in York (Stove & Addyman 1989) and graves at a 16th-century Basque whaling station in Labrador (Vaughan 1986). Elsewhere, recent archaeological work at Gloucester was able to identify intact skulls as target points but only with hindsight and reprocessing and it was admitted that it was not possible to locate skeletons as such below 1.3 m. The practicalities and problems of GPR (including cost implications) for archaeological purposes have been reviewed (Atkin & Milligan 1992), but no public assessment of the technique for locating buried human remains by UK police forces has been made.…”